encomium
noun
a formal expression of high praise; eulogy.
encomia
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pluralof encomium.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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CUMMING, Ga. – In a barn 40 miles north of downtown Atlanta, after barbecue was served and local dignitaries basted each other with encomia, Gov. Brian Kemp got down to brass tacks.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 19, 2022
It has already been translated into six languages and is published with dust-jacket encomia from Russell Brand, Susan Sarandon, Brian Eno, Helena Kennedy QC and Paul Mason.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2016
I regard the posthumous encomia for Scalia as absurd.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2016
A Juilliard ensemble played a Haydn string quartet, and later Alfred published a collection of encomia.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 11, 2016
He also wrote hymns, paeans, dithyrambs, odes for processions, songs of maidens, mimic dancing songs, drinking songs, dirges and encomia, or panegyrics on princes.
From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Sir William Smith
